BSBSUS501 Assessment Assessment 1: Short Answer Questions Question 1 What is an industry code of practice and what are the aims of such codes? Question 2 Why is it important to have a good...

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Assessment 1: Short Answer Questions
Question 1
What is an industry code of practice and what are the aims of such codes?
Ans. A set of rules and measures that are used in place to modify industry conduct, the workers of the company and their bond with the consumers are known as an industry code. The main function of this code is to serve for the improvement of the industry standards and provide support for legislative requirements. This can be done by giving an industry a low-cost and flexible form of regulation. The practices can be voluntary or a must and applies to a business individually or in entirety. The sanctioned code of practice is considered to be a practical guideline for assisting you in complying with your health and safety duties that falls under the WHS Act and Regulations. The main purpose it serves is to make sure that the industry compliance with a set or objectives after coming into terms from both ends. These objectives help employers, workers and consumers together. The main concern of the objectives is promoting the best practices, to improve the safety standards and enhance confidence of the consumers. The stated objectives and role must be communicated to the employees, stakeholders and the consumers so that they are clear about their rights and obligations under the code of practice.
· The provisions included in the code of practice framework involve:
· Risk Management strategies
· Procedure for periodically reviewing the code of practice
· Measures encompassing guidelines, practices and standards
· Schemes regarding complaint management and approval for non-compliance
Question 2
Why is it important to have a good understanding of environmental legislation that affects your business or the industry within which you work?
Ans. Not only about proving to be beneficial for the environment, making the business more sustainable has other perks too and they are as follows:
· Work security and health – usage of chemicals from industries are reduces and it can improve the workplace safety and health relatively.
· Recover the resources – an environment friendly approach involves the three steps, reducing, reusing and recycling.
· Cost savings – low expenditure on raw materials, water, energy and waste management can prove beneficial.
· Legal compliance – meeting environmental protection laws are a must for business growth.
· Business reputation – people prefer business that keeps the well being of nature in mind while making money.
Question 3
What is a formal organisational environmental policy? What might be covered by or included in an organisation’s environmental policies and procedures?
Ans. A written statement signed by the senior management outlines the aims and principals according to which a person runs the business in relation with management of the effects on nature and aspects of the operations is known to be the formal organisational environmental policy. One of the best policies to maintain the standard of the environment policy is the ISO 14001.
The environmental policies must include:
· A commitment for continuously improving and preventing pollution
· The guideline for reviewing and setting objectives and targets related to environment.
· Policies appropriate to the organisation.
· A commitment that implies relevant legal requirements
The policies are mandatory to be reviewed regularly and change if need be. Whenever there is a change or identifiable performance issue, the policy should be reviewed. Even without problems or issues they should be reviewed time and again.
Question 4
What is an environmental management system (EMS)?
Ans. An Environmental Management System (EMS) provides a group of practices and methods that allow any organization to reduce its impact on the environment and magnify its operating efficiency. The site is responsible for providing knowledge and materials relating to the EMS for not only minor business organizations but also private industries and federal and local agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to progress for developing and maintaining the nature friendly management system everywhere. They are focused on the reduction of the agency’s environmental footprint.
Question 5.
What are the benefits of using procedures? How can staff find information about procedures and how should procedures be taught?
Ans. Maintaining high quality of the services provided should be the main concern for the organization. There are benefits of using procedures because the aid the workers of the organization to know what service they are to provide keeping standards of performance and behaviour in mind. They also set guidelines to make the decision-making process easy in scheduled situations so that the employees and senior employees can work independently. These procedures will allow to adopt a consistent and proper response around the organization to refer to situations continuously involving interactions. Good faith among the employees and employers are maintained well with these procedures. An accepted method of dealing with the misunderstandings and problems to avoid discrimination between employees. They provide rules for the delegations of decision-making. The procedures will provide a gateway to have clear communication.
Question 6.
Outline at least 2 typical barriers. What strategies can address resistance or barriers when implementing policies and procedures in an organisation?
Ans. One of the great strategies include induction which might affect the customers, employees and the entire industry. Whenever you introduce any policy to the staff of your organization the most crucial thing is to see if they understood the policy in-depth. Another strategy includes training because when you train the employees with the policy you can also make sure they are putting it to use. Instead of micromanaging the workers the manager can exercise control by exception.
Assessment 2: Project
1. Access the ABC vision, mission and values statement and sustainability environmental policy. Examine the scope of these documents and review them against the criteria listed below:
· Minimising resource use
· Increasing resource efficiency
· Reducing toxic material and hazardous chemical use
· Employing life cycle management approaches
· Continuous improvement
In examining the scope of these documents, you will also need to review the continuous improvement procedures, supplier policy, purchasing resource acquisition policy, purchasing resources acquisition procedures, risk management policy and risk management procedures. As an outcome of this examination, prepare a table that outlines how the scope of the ABC sustainability policy may need to change. Include a brief supporting justification.
Ans. Company's ABC characterized mission, vision and values statement and sustainability environmental policy expresses that the organization's central goal is to revive the world and have an impact. The vision which fills in as the organization's guide and manual for each part of business in portraying what should be accomplished over and again accomplish manageable quality development expresses that the organization is to give an extraordinary workplace where individuals are propelled to accomplish all that can be expected. The qualities explanation and manageability ecological approach controls the association's conduct on the planet.
2. Review the ABC sustainability policy against federal and state/ territory environmental and sustainability legislation to ensure that the scope of the policy is adequate to accommodate legislative requirements.
a) Make a table of relevant federal and state/ territory legislation that should be considered and the key aspects of each law that should be built into the sustainability policy.
b) Prepare a further table that outlines how the scope of the sustainability policy may need to change in order to reflect the legislative requirements that you have determined are relevant. Include a brief supporting justification.
Ans. a.
    Human Rights
    The organization has guaranteed that incorporation and variety are coordinated and embraced as an approach all throughout the planet.
    Occupational Safety and Health Act
    The organization is committed to organizing and reliably give a protected and sound work place for all laborers.
b.
    Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy(BICEP)
    ABC ought to guarantee expanded selection of inexhaustible assets, increment its interests in a perfect energy economy and increment its help for environmental change versatility.
    Sarbanes–Oxley Act
    This is to guarantee that top administration of the ABC organization is considered mindful independently for monetary wrongdoings.
4. Given that ABC is a large manufacturing and retail business, prepare a table of external information sources that could assist in planning and developing sustainability policy. List at least 2 sources with an adjacent column that provides a short explanation of the type of useful information that each source could provide.
Ans.
    Industrial information
    This is the data that is given by the business the organization adjusts itself to.
    Competitive information
    This is data accumulated about contenders as no business does not have a contender and data about the organization's opposition helps in defining new, serious techniques.
5. Prepare a table of stakeholders, internal and external, who should be consulted in planning and developing sustainability policy. List at least 2 stakeholders with an adjacent column that provides a short explanation of what influence each may have in planning and developing sustainability policy.
Ans.
    Stakeholder
    Internal
    External
    Employees
    They give interesting data about quality cycles that would help think of value items.
    
    Government and regulatory
authorities
    
    They give data on changes that are made and lead quality reviews on the organization's items.
6. The CEO has reviewed your scoping and consultation documents and provided feedback. She noted that there is nothing to indicate the positive effects that sustainable practices will have on the business such as cost savings, or increased sales or return on investments. Prepare a short briefing paper that could be presented to senior management, explaining how implementation of a sustainability policy could benefit the organisation financially.
Ans. By executing sustainability arrangements the organization charms itself to consumers as the report show that purchasers are attracted to items that come from organizations that are ecologically careful. This must be accomplished through carrying out manageability approaches hence guaranteeing that the organization markets itself in various stages.
7. The current ABC sustainability policy has a number of sustainability initiatives. Prepare a table that lists each of these initiatives and also includes at least 2 more initiatives that you feel would be appropriate. For each of these initiatives, outline the steps or phases that would be required to implement them, and prepare some performance indicators that could be used to measure the ongoing outcomes of the initiatives.
Ans.
    Water provision
    ABC has embraced collective activities that target giving clean water particularly in Australian nations.
    Bottling
    The organization is running after gathering as much plastic waste as the quantity of packaging bundle, they sell yearly.
8. Revise the ABC sustainability policy based on the research and information collation that you have undertaken. You also need to make sure there are appropriate strategies at all stages of work for minimising resources use, reducing toxic material and hazardous chemical use and employing life cycle management approaches.
Ans. ABC comprehends that sustainability arrangements are the demonstration of addressing current necessities without meddling with the capacity of meeting similar requirements in future. This implies that dependable usage of assets whereby assets are utilized sparingly like cash is utilized.
9. Prepare a briefing document for ABC senior management that informs them of the reviewed policy and suggested sustainability initiatives. The briefing document should also outline the responsibilities of each senior management in implementing the policy and its initiatives.
Ans. ABC ought to endeavour to have a worldwide effect. This can be accomplished by guaranteeing that the numerous organizations that are under ABC's administration are effectively engaged with changing the existences of individuals in their territories. Through arrangement of work, the organization can be perceived as a component of the general public.
11. Select 2 of the sustainability initiatives and develop procedures for their implementation. The procedures should include:
· Agreed outcomes
· Performance indicators
· Activities to be undertaken
· Assigned responsibilities
· Record-keeping, review and improvement processes
Ans. ABC should strive to make a global impact. This can be achieved by ensuring that the many companies that are under ABC’s management are actively involved in transforming the lives of people in their localities. The company will ensure that all plastic waste is reused. This will be achieved by ensuring that the waste in the surrounding has a control system that will enable recovery of waste is easy.
12. The sustainability initiative to install a 150-megalitre rainwater tank needs to be reviewed because of cost, logistics and outcomes. The following points need to be considered in the review:
· There is a scale problem in the original policy initiatives as 1mega litre equals 1,000,000 litres
· ABC has 150 retail outlets and it is a better outcome to have rainwater collection facilities at each location rather than 1 large tank at the head office
· The rainwater is intended for use in flushing toilets. Data indicates that the average employee will use 30 litres of water per day in flushing toilets. The typical ABC location has approximately 30 employees
· The cost of installing a rainwater tank is estimated to be $1,000 per 5,000 litres
· The amount of available space at each location to install a rainwater tank is 10 metres x 10 metres
· The average rainfall at each location is 700 millimetres per year
· The average roof collection area for rainwater at each location is 2000 square meters
· Main’s water is supplied to ABC facilities at an average cost of $2 per 1,000 liters
· Replacement of old toilets with new water-efficient models can reduce water consumption by approximately 50 per cent
· Installation of new water-efficient toilets can be achieved for approximately $15,000 at each ABC location
Prepare a revised water-saving strategy for inclusion in the ABC sustainability policy. Justify the revised strategy based on calculations and consideration of other water saving options.
Ans. Places of business will actually want to save gallons of water by supplanting flush meter-valve toilets with models that flush at 1.28 gallons contrasted with those that flush to as much as 3.5 to 7 gallons for each flush. Created graphs make the initial step to directing office evaluation. It sees how the organization utilizes water and where productivity can be expanded t save cost and asset. It additionally helps in distinguishing spills and other activity failures that are tended to right away.
13. Review the supplier policy, purchasing policy and purchasing procedures again. Note that these policies contain inconsistent information for evaluating suppliers on their sustainability credentials, and that the purchasing procedures contain no checks that link to sustainability policy. Prepare a revised version of the supplier policy, purchasing policy and procedures that incorporates consideration of suppliers that use packaging made from renewable resource rather than non-renewable resources.
Ans. ABC business relationship with its providers depends on provider approaches underneath with consideration of agreements and buy request terms and conditions that are explicit to provider exchanges with...